Dry-battery container.



H. T. JOHNSON, DBGD.' N. I. JOHNSON, ADMIN IS'IRATRIX.

DRY BATTERY CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1912.

1,105,144. v H Patented Ju1y28,1914;

WITNESSES INVENTQR 12cm. M m.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY '1. OHNSON, OF- NEW YORK, N. Y.; NE'ITIE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATRIX OF SAID HARRY T. JOHNSON, DECEASED.

DRY-BATTERY CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1914.

Application filed July 18, 1912. Serial No. 710,173.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY T. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dry-Battery Containers, of which the folheretofore been made up by embedding the individual cells in a mass of tar or similar;

material which is located in a wooden or Inc tallic inclosure. This makes a very expensive structure which is not suitable for use with the cheapergrades of batteries nor for ordinary use owing to the h gh cost.

By practising this invent-ion any number of cells can be firmly secured together to form a unit at but a very-small additional cost over the cost of the cells per se.

'The invention consists in the improved battery unit Hereinafter more particularly described and then specified in the claims.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view o'f a battery unit constructed in' accordance with "misinvent on. the cover being open. Fig.2 is a simi ar- View of the same with the cover. closed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the same. Fig. 4 is a detached iew of one of the battery cells, the cell container being shown section.

1 indicates the ordinary dry'battery cell of which there may be any desired number connected together by suitable, wires according to any desired wiring system to form the unit. I Each cell is located 'in a separate paper container 2 which may be the ordinary container in which the cells are customarily sold individually, the carbon and zinc terminals'of the cellsprotruding up I am aware that dry battery units have through openings in the top' ofthe containers in the usual manner. The containers 2 are placed in an inclosureor carton 3 also preferably formed of cardboard or paper and in which the containers. fit snugly.

According to one manner of carrying the invention into effect, the sides of the con-' tainers 2 are brought into sidewise contact and secured to each other along their sides by means of a suitable adhesive such as ordinary glue. The inner sides as Well as the bottom" of the carton 3 are also provided with a coating of glue or similar adhesive by which the sides of the containers 2 other than those sides which are in contact with other containers are firmly fastened to the The carton 3 is provided with a carton. cover preferably made up of flaps 4, 5, 6 and 7 which fold over and close the opening of the carton and by gluing the lapping edges of the flaps the batteries and carton are united into a practically unitary structure.

out the invention, it is not] necessary to glue the containers 2'to.each other and to the carton 3 but a fastening strip 8 of any suitable material, as for instance wood, is placed on top of the containers 2 in such position According to another manner of carrying that it engages a portion of the top of each' container or spans the juncture between pairs of the containers as shown. This strip fits more or less loosely withinthe carton 3 and is not necessarily secured to the containers 2 but when the cover flaps 4, 5, 6 and 7 are folded over, one or more screws 9 are fastenedthrough the overlapping upper flaps 4 and 6 and to the strip '8. Thus after the screws9 are fastened down, the battery carton 3 so that anytossing around of the containers 2 are firmly held in nlace in the unit will not cause dislbcation of the cells with relation to each other and the carton 3. What I claim asmy invention is: 1. In a .device of the character described,

the combination of a plurality of paper containers adapted to hold dry battery cells and arranged in pairs, a paper carton in which said containers are located and fastening means spanning the juncture between the pairs of said containers, said carton having a flap cover secured to said fastening means and provided with openings through which 2. In a device of the character described.

the terminal wires from the batteries pass. 1

the combination of a plurality of paper containers adapted to hold dry battery cells, a paper carton in which said containers are lecated, said carton being provided with overlapping flaps to close the opening thereof and a fastening strip engaging a portion only of the top of each container to secure the same in said carton, some of said flaps icing provided with openings through which terminal wires from the batteries pass HARRY T. JOHNSON.

Witnesses: I

BURTIs, H. ELLIS, JOHN F. HEANEY.

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